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The wars & local soldiers, 1883

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Luncheon on Board the Italian War-vessel Caracciolo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 December 1883 · page 11

Yesterday afternoon, at the invitation of Captain Amezaga, a number of gentlemen representing the political, judicial, military, naval, literary, and municipal interests of the mother country and colony, partook of luncheon on…

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Cable Messages The Victorian War Vessels

Evening News · Saturday 22 December 1883 · page 4

LONDON, December 21,—The Victorian torpedo boat Childers, and the gunboats Victoria and Albert, which leave England for Australia on the 14th January, will go by way of Torres…

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The Victorian War Vessels. London, Dec. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 December 1883 · page 12

The Victorian torpedo boat Childers, and the gunboats Victoria and Albert, which leave England for Australia on the 14th January, will go by way of Torres Straits…

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British and Foreign Items. (From Our London Correspondent, and Through Reuter's Agency.) The Soudan War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 December 1883 · page 9

LONDON, December 13— The successes' achieved by E1 Mahdi in the Soudan are exciting the tribes of Arabia to rebellion. ALEXANDRIA, December 16— Admiral W…

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The Egyptian War

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 December 1883 · page 3

However war may prove injurious to some, it cannot be said that it so affects Mr. Thompson. On the contrary, it is really a turn of the wheel of fortune in his favour. The Zulu war was an…

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The Coming War in the Far East. the Arsenals of China

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 December 1883 · page 3

China is popularly believed to be the most conservative coantry in the world, and the one which most effectually resists all attempts to introduce new and particularly European-ideas. The fact…

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The Duellists. a Tale of the "Thiry Years War."

Nepean Times · Saturday 29 December 1883 · page 5

WHILE Lower Saxony was oppressed and exhausted by the Austrian and Bavarian troops in the Thirty Years' War, the circle of Upper Saxony had been preserved for a…

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